Positive injury news in Irish Rugby squad

The Ireland squad trained at their base at Carton House on Monday, after an opening weekend Six Nations loss to Scotland.

It has become a usual thing for the media to ask questions about the constantly injured Jonathan Sexton, who missed the weekends loss in Murrayfield with a troublesome calf injury.

In his pre match press conference before the Scotland game, head coach Joe Schmidt gave him 'an outsiders chance' of being fit for the trip to Rome, while after the game Schmidt said 'he had come close to playing'